(taken from full article at NationalPost.com) Sharp-eyed readers of Scott Thornley’s latest roller-coaster thriller, Middlemen, will suspect it’s happening in the Ontario city of Hamilton. But as always with his books, Thornley gives the place a fictional name and scrambles the geography a bit. When it comes to crime fiction, he’s a late-flowering success story […]
The Globe and Mail lists Middlemen in their list of 10 thrillers to read this summer! Here’s what they’ve got to say about it: “Let’s just say it: Scott Thornley’s fifth mystery featuring detective superintendent MacNeice is terrific. Each scene takes place in identifiable southern Ontario sketched by an author who loves this place. We begin with […]
by Jamie Portman(Appeared in Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader-Post, Windsor Star, Edmonton Journal, The Beacon Herald) Canadian crime novelist lets the story lead him to its conclusion Bestselling novelist John Irving once famously observed that whenever he starts a new book, he always writes the last sentence first. […]
“With each MacNeice book, Scott Thornley takes the reader deeper into the forest of the human soul. These are, yes, detective stories, but they are also novels about a detective. For MacNeice, nearly every action undertaken in pursuit of perpetrators of horrible murders opens up vistas: of his psyche; of his love for his late […]
Germany, Austria, Switzerland–get ready! The MacNeice Mysteries coming your way 06.04.2020!
Waterloo Public Library has featured the MacNeice series in their blog called “Check it Out”. Read their full review here.